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- How to enable the ACPI daemon support for Toshiba ACPI enabled laptops
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- If you have the acpi, acpid and acpi-support packages installed and are using
- the linux kernel version 2.6.10 packages (or better) from Ubuntu then you can
- enable support for passing the Toshiba hotkeys via the ACPI subsystem.
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- This allows acpid to automatically launch the relevant scripts when you hit
- the hotkeys on your laptop.
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- The following keys are currently supported:
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- * The Lock key
- * The suspend to RAM key (Also known as sleep)
- * The suspend to DISK key (Also known as hibernate)
- * The brightness up/down keys
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- The other hotkeys are passed through the acpi layer and you may be able to get
- other programs which can listen to the acpi events and respond appropriately.
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- Note that if you enable this functionality then software such as fnfx will stop
- working because they rely on older functionality for obtaining the hotkey
- information from the kernel.
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- If you want to enable the acpi daemon support for Toshiba ACPI then do the
- following simple set of operations.
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- Open a terminal and...
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- 1. become root:
- myuser@mymachine:~ $ sudo -s -H
- Password: <enter your password here>
- root@mymachine:~ #
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- (from now on I will simplify the root shell prompt to a single # symbol)
- 2. unload the current toshiba kernel module
- # rmmod toshiba_acpi
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- (Don't worry if you get an error at this point)
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- 3. create the configuration file
- # cd /etc/modprobe.d
- # cp /usr/share/doc/acpi-support/toshiba_acpi.modprobe .
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- 4. attempt to load the toshiba support module again
- # modprobe toshiba_acpi
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- 5. check that the module loaded okay and enabled the hotkey support
- # ps ax | grep ktoshkeyd
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- If you get no output from that command then the installation failed and
- you should seek support on the ubuntu-users mailing list.
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- 6. ensure that the hotkey support is now working
- Try pressing Fn+<key with brightness symbols on it>
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- Your brightness should change appropriately. Again if you see no difference
- then seek support on the ubuntu-users mailinglist.
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- 7. ensure that the module will be loaded on boot
- # grep toshiba_acpi /etc/modules
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- if you see no output from that command you should do:
- # echo toshiba_acpi >> /etc/modules
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- That's it.
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- If you need any more support, please contact the ubuntu-users mailing list.
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- Document written by Daniel Silverstone <daniel.silverstone@canonical.com>
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